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Luke 6:37 says, “Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. ” Forgiveness sounds easy enough, but the tough part is keeping out of thought the cause of that need for forgiveness.

When I’ve been healed of some physical difficulty through applying Christian Science treatment, I’ve always gotten a fuller understanding of what God is and what I am as a loved idea, reflection, of my Father-Mother—my divine Parent. Has healing been easy—instantaneous? Sometimes, but not always.

Three years ago , I had to find a new place to live and considered purchasing a house. Although I had lived in rental property for years, buying a home seemed like a reasonable step to take, and one I had desired for some time.

Why did Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the Christian Science Church,  establish a secular international newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor? Why would a religious leader also have a purpose for news and information? As a staff editor for the Monitor, it’s a question I have thought about a lot. Today’s news environment is constant and aggressive.

When I was growing up, it was an analog world.   If one had to express this concept of analog in philosophical terms, I guess the best way would be to describe it as a gray area.

It is reasonable that the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, would hold glorious views of her discovery. In fact, she valued it beyond every other body of concepts on earth.

In the Preface of Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy referred lovingly to her early compositions on Scripture as “.

I grew up in Latin America, in a traditional religion where many issues that aroused my curiosity were shrouded in mystery. When I read Science and Health for the first time and discovered the answers there to all the questions I’d had for years, I felt I had found something very special, where logic prevailed.

What I find outstanding about Mary Baker Eddy is her unselfishness. I see it in her writings, in her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection, and in her life story as written by others.

Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Suns and planets teach grand lessons” ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , p. 240 ).